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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo1301">Saint John Wapping</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo1302">Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date173">Nineteenth Day of July in the twenty second Year of the Reign of our<lb></lb>
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third</rs>
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, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and<lb></lb>
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1315-3">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
a Boy unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1315-4">William Elliott</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1315-5">James French</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1315-6">James Randall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1315-7">Joseph Meeres</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1315-8">John Meeres</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1315-9">Griffin Boardman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1315-10">Cuthbert Hays</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1315-11">William Taylor</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1315-12">Thomas Cox</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1315-13">Benjamin<lb></lb>
Robinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1315-15">William Vezey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1315-16">George Creighton</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1315-17">Peter Simpson</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly<lb></lb>
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the<lb></lb>
said Boy unknown came to his<lb></lb>
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Boy unknown on the Thirteenth Day<lb></lb>
of July in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo1303">River Thames</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo1304">near the Tower</rs>
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of LondonThat the said Boy unknown had not any marks of Violence<lb></lb>
appearing about him and how or by what Means he became drowned and suffocated<lb></lb>
no Evidence doth appear to the said Jurors<lb></lb>
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1315-18">William Elliott</rs>
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in<lb></lb>
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first<lb></lb>
above written.</p>
<p n="1316"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1316-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCOIC65102_occ255">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1317">Wm Elliott<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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